EU Cloud Price Index

How the index works

Every week our price bot snapshots list prices (excl. VAT) into the open eu-cloud-prices repository. For three instance classes (4 vCPU / 8 GB, 8 vCPU / 16 GB, 16 vCPU / 32 GB) we track one reference plan per provider and follow its price through every snapshot. That keeps the comparison like-for-like: a provider launching a cheaper product line, retiring a plan or us adding providers never moves a line, only a change of the reference plan's own price does.

Choosing the reference plan: x86, no GPU, at least the class's vCPU and RAM and at most twice as much. Among those, an exact match comes first, then a plan we have listed since we started tracking the provider, then the cheapest. Shared and dedicated vCPU plans are both allowed; the table says which one it is. The EU value of a class is the plain average of the EU providers' values, unchanged ones included, over the providers whose reference plan we have tracked since the first three months; providers added later are shown but not averaged. The hyperscaler value does the same for AWS, Azure and Google Cloud.

Every detected change is checked against the provider's own price page or announcement before it counts. Corrections of our own data (a scraper fix, a switch from gross to net prices or from USD to EUR in our files) never count. Hyperscaler prices are published in USD: if the USD price is unchanged and only the EUR conversion moved, it is not a price change.

Dates: a change is dated to the snapshot that first saw it, usually within a week of the provider's effective date. Where our data picked a change up much later and the provider's announcement confirms the effective date, it is dated back to that date.

Limits: one plan per provider and class does not show everything. A provider can raise prices by replacing plans with successors that cost more or offer less (netcup's G12.5 VPS 500 to 8000 halved the disk); those count only where the successor has identical specs. New plans at higher prices are not captured either.